US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Feb. 10 for "Atomic and incremental target state definitions for database entities" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,612, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Atomic and incremental target state definitions for database entities" was invented by Florian Gross (Berlin), Martin Hentschel (Berlin), Vincent Raudszus (Berlin), Stefan Richter (Berlin) and Tom Henri Wollnik (Potsdam, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for creating and modifying database entities, such as tables, tasks, etc., using declarative statements are described. Declarative statements specify a target state of the entity without specifying specific actions. The techniques described herein apply changes to the database entity atomically ...